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2008


Give and Take from the Great Demographic Fact: A Vagarious Look At Commercial Influence over Cultural Exchange in 20th- and 21st-century Philadelphia

Chadd S. Johnson
Keywords: clothing trade in Africa, commerce, commercial influence, cultural imperialism, data analysis, History, migration, personal narrative, Philadelphia, worker migration

The Peopling of Philadelphia: 19th Century Immigration

Mona Kolsky
Keywords: 19th Century Immigration, advertisements, Graphs, industrial city, Lazaretto Quarantine Station, national trends, Philadelphia, photographs, political cartoons, ship manifests, stereotyping

Bound Labor in Philadelphia

Sandy O’Keefe
Keywords: apprentice, apprenticeships, bound labor, Colonial Philadelphia, immigrants, indentured servants, Philadelphia, redemptioners, servitude, workforce

2007


Rock and Roll and the Record and Broadcasting Industry

Sandy O’Keefe
Keywords: African American Artists, Blues music, Music, Philadelphia, rhythm, rock and roll

Why Are There Abandoned Factories in My Neighborhood?

Tim Woods
Keywords: History, Industrial history, Philadelphia, William Penn

2006


Cultural Infusion: the Public Art of Philadelphia’s Chinatown

Maxine J. Tumaian
Keywords: Art, chinatown, Chinese, Chinese immigration, community, Dragon Mural, Philadelphia

Langston Hughes, Romare Bearden and Comrades: Countering Negative Stereotypes through African American Arts Communities

Barbara McDowell Dowdall
Keywords: African American Artists, Art, Harlem Renaissance, Philadelphia, Visual Art

Philadelphia’s Relationship to the Harlem Renaissance

Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: African American History, Harlem Renaissance, New Negro Movement, Philadelphia


Philly Proud: Researching the Cultural History of Philadelphia and How Children See Themselves

Karenin Loinaz
Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia, south philadelphia, Southwark